ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs FirePro M6100

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking621not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameEmeraldBroadway
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date27 May 2014 (11 years ago)7 January 2010 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896800
Core clock speed1100 MHz628 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data30 Watt
Texture fill rate61.6025.12
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPS1.005 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs5640

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.5 (6.0)5.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.2.170N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2014 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

FirePro M6100 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M6100 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M6100 is a mobile workstation graphics card while Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition is a mobile workstation one.

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